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    Question for the machinists here...

    QuoteEdit Bought a cute little wood lathe fer$100 at a yard sale, got most of the tooling, but among the missing is a nut and collet, that turns the inboard end of the tailstock into a holder for 1/2" shank drill bits. The tailstock is MT#2, and as best as I can measure it it's 25 MM (24.75...
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    Best explanation I've seen...

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    Tire question...

    Just picked up a little drop axle trailer, currently has a set of 11+year old 205 75 R15's on it. Drags ass end , going down a steep-ish hill, to where I park/store it. I think if I could get it an inch or 2 higher, dragging would stop. Here's my question, Does anybody make a 205 85 R15...
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    Picked up a CL deal, today...

    Saw a good deal on craigs list, only problem was the where. Anyway called the feller up, he said call me around 2P, so I piddled the mornin away, blowed alla the grass offa the mower, changed the blades, had more time, so's I started workin on the trailer tailgate, expanded metal, extra thin...
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    Saw this thread, over at the AC forum...

    Rather than give it to you second hand, Here's a copy and paste of it: Hi all, I'm having an unfortunate issue with my HD4 again and I'm afraid I've really done something terrible to the old girl. I hope I'm wrong. I'm up in Canada and we had a good extended cold snap back in Nov/Dec where...
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    intake air filter for air compressor...

    So, I bought a little pancake air compressor at auction, a coupla months ago. Was moving crap around in the barn, and hooked it up to see if it was running or for parts. Ran fine, drain plug loosens and tightens like it should, too. I did notice, however it was missing the intake filter...
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    New toy!

    Just bought this at an auction, today: https://www.harborfreight.com/7-inch-x-10-inch-precision-mini-lathe-93212.html?_br_psugg_q=lathe OK, so its chinese HF junk. I paid an American auctioneer for it, and I think it'll do the little stuff I have in mind for it! Anybody wanna play gue$$ what...
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    Got a whatizit at an auction...

    It was inventory from an old hardware store, if that helps... What it is is about an 8" grinder, grinder pivots up and down, to a table with a slot in it. One inch wide grinder wheel rotates downward, toward the table, at front. Wheel is belt driven, from a motor, at back. Thought it might be...
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    Drilling question...

    Bit of a conundrum, I wanna drill through a shaft, then a bearing casing... Already through the shaft, I started the hole, in one of the set screw holes, in the bearing. I think I am through the 2" shaft, but the bearing case is significantly harder. Its only a quarter inch hole, and the...
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    Saw a neat trick, on youtube...

    Been using LH bits, for years, but the socket head screw, with a hole drilled through the middle is what I call mechanical genius!
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    Update on the Altoz mower

    Can't find the original post, but here's the latest update on the saga... Tackled a job I has been putting off. Waranteed set of tracks have been on the shop floor fer about 2 months or more, just wanted to get the last inch of wear outta the old ones, cause I'm cheap! Anyway, for those not...
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    Me next project...

    Gotta old Snowco trailer, last fall its a 1 ton SA, with a wide enough flatbed deck to handle a 66" mower, though mine is only 61" deck... Anyway it has a flip up ramp that is a little heavier than I like lifting 4-5 times a day! So I was lookin around youtube, to see what I could find for...
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    Gotta be careful, here...

    Went out, this AM, rainin, with the promise of more, so I gotta little cat nap, in in the office, early, since I had nothing in particular on the plate, today... After a half hour shut eye, woke up, and decided to change the blades, on the mower, on the trailer, in the shop, since I need 'em...
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    Why...

    Does a hose have to spring a pinhole leak, on a jobsite, yet when tested before before goin to the job, no leaks evident? Sigh... Anyway, its on a Lowe hydraulic augur. Took hoses off, leak was where the hose comes outta the box, I suspect a rub problem, anyway, took'em off, went to...
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    Anyone ever try these?

    Saw it first in farm show magazine...
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    Neat video of a rescue...

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    Neat concept, well executed...

    This just happened to pop up in my youtube feed...
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    I wonder whatever happened to this rig?

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    Well that's done...

    And I don't think I'd do it that way agin! Had 7 file drawers I had mounted in the shop, to put some of the mess in(got 'em at auction fer a dollar!). Problem is, they gots no top or bottom, and the birds(swallows) and bees(wasps, mainly) likes to nest in the nooks and crannies. So, figgers...
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    Neat Drone video of some old AC's workin...

    Mel is an AC Crawler expert, lost his house and lots of timber, to last year's CA fires, but he don't let that get him down... Here's his video...
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